Pink and Red Jackets
Beautiful
Pink and red jackets
Cheap vinyl and polyester
Bobbing in the cold
I look anxiously about for good things
And find the nice colors
Of their clothes
Pink and red jackets
Revealing
Closet romantics
Disguised
Beneath thick red plastic skins
You are like my children
Whom I cannot love without reservation
I cannot help but wonder what you all really look like
Beneath those colorful red and pink clothes
by Hugh M. Lewis
The Great Wall
Poesy From China
1998-9
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Last Updated: 03/15/05